One of the most common questions I get about the Bible Journal is "what if you mess up a page and hate it?". Since it's semi-permanent in a composition notebook, it does scare some people enough to not want to start.
So there are a few things you can do.
1. You can make your journal in a binder,
on loose leaf notebook paper, which works for some people... but I, personally, don't like carrying around a big, slippery, slanted binder, or loose pieces of notebook paper.
So there's always option #2.
2. Recover the messed up pages.
I wouldn't recommend doing this for all your pages,
but for the pages that you really can't stand to look at, this is a great way to fix them!
When I started my Bible Journal, I grabbed the nearest, cheapest composition notebook and just started brainstorming topics to make my Table of Contents. Like I showed you in the set up post, you need at least 4 pages blank at the beginning for your table of contents. I didn't do that.
So now I've run out of table of contents pages, and didn't like my original sloppiness anyways, so I recovered them.
I started out by cutting a template page out with the back of a cardboard cereal box. (I just slid a straight edge of the box into the notebook and traced a page shape onto it, and cut it out.)
Then I used the template and traced the shape onto some loose leaf notebook paper and cut them out.
Then I rewrote the pages, making two columns for better use of the page area.
Then I glued them with a glue stick, right over the top of my old table of contents.
I don't mind an extra thick page for the table of contents because it will get used a lot and the sturdiness will be nice.
And now I have more room to continue adding topics to study.
But the best thing is, if you struggle with panic that you won't have a perfect journal, perhaps this will give you a bit of freedom to go ahead and start.
Any messed up pages, CAN be fixed fairly simply.
SO GO FOR IT!
If you'd like to do a Bible Study specifically designed for the Bible Journal, check out the Bible Studies I wrote that walk you through the process step by step, book by book, of the New Testament! Click the picture below!